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Show AMERICAN RAGE ! HARD STRUGGLE; . YAISI TOP Indians in Lead for One Day; Nick Cullop Suffers First Defeat; Brooklyn in National. NEW YORK, July 16. The race for the pennant in the American league grows more exciting as the season advances, and the end of the last week found New l York in first place, and Detroit in fifth place, separated by less than 45 points. At the end of the previous week New York was more than 90 points ahead of Detroit, then in sixth place. The Polo grounds last week wast the ' scene of some bitterly contested games, as New York played "both Cleveland and i Detroit. The Yankees slipped back as i the result of the visits of the Indians ! and Tigers, losing six out of nine games, j Cleveland took four out of six from New York and went into the lead for one day, only to lose it Thursday when the Yan-j Yan-j kees beat them, 6 to 3. Friday, New York ; and Detroit played two 12-innlng games, j each team winning one. I Cullop, the winning pitcher for Man-; Man-; ager Donovan, lost his first game of the i season to Detroit, Friday. In the same j double-header. Home-run Baker was ln-I ln-I jured and probably will be out of the ! game for several weeks. This may be j a serious blow to Donovan, as he also ! Is without the services of Maisel and Gilhooley, outfielders, because of injuries. Cleveland Keeps Even. Notwithstanding the victories over New York, Cleveland did not better its position greatly. Detroit had little trouble beating Washington, and Is nearing the first division again, winning" five and losing los-ing two games for the week. Boston and Chicago staged a pretty contest for third place. They played double-headers on three successive days, and the Red Sox won four out of the six contests. On Friday, the Red Sox played St Tjouls a 17-innlng 0 to 0 tie, the second long no-score no-score tie in which the Sox have taken part this season. The Browns used one pitcher, Koob, and it was his failure to touch third In the fifteenth Inning that prevented St: Louis from scoring and-probably and-probably winning the game. Boston used two pitchers; St. Louis made throe hits and Boston 14. Brooklyn in National. In the National league Brooklyn held a lead by a decreased margin from fhe previous week. Philadelphia and Boston continued their fight for second place, and the Giants crept back into the first division. divi-sion. Brooklyn met unexpectedly strong opposition in both Cincinnati and St. Louis. Boston won five and lost one, and is now only 30 points behind Brooklyn Brook-lyn and playing very good baseball. The Braves made only three errors during the week. The Giants, after breaking even in Pittsburg, had better success in Cincinnati Cincin-nati and took two extra-inn ing games, both of 10 innings, from the Reds. The Phillies went back slightly, not being aide to do better than break even in eight games. The team-hitting of the Giants, mainly through the ability of Burns, Kauff and Robertson, was one of the features of the week. |